Personal Web Sharing won't start up

I'm sorry if this is duplicated but I when I try to start up my web sharing, it goes grey, says starting but never gets anywhere.
I was tring to install PHP and tried the 5.0 verison as I have the intel mac. I guess that was a big mistake.
When I try to use terminal to launch apache I get the following message.
AllisonServer:~ allisonserver$ apachectl start
Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open document config file /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
In the console utility, when I go to /var/log and then into httpd the window is empty.
In the console log I'm getting this message
Processing config directory: /private/etc/httpd/users/*.conf
Processing config file: /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
fopen: No such file or directory
httpd: could not open document config file /private/etc/httpd/users/+entropy-php.conf
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
Can anybody help me clear out the PHP5 if that's my problem.
I would also like to know how to tell if i have apache 1.2 or 2.0?
Thank you in advance

Go here and read the PHP Problems part:
http://Gnarlodious.com/Computer/Apache

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